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Emma Watch is an avant-garde Microsoft project presented at the Build Conference 2017 in Seattle (Washington). It is a Smartwarch created by researcher Haiyan Zhang who tested it at the Microsoft center in Cambridge (UK), ...

Playing violent "shooter" video games can damage the brain and might even increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, researchers claim. A study by the University of Montréal has shown habitual players of action games have ...

Loneliness is deadlier than obesity and should be considered a major public health hazard. Researchers in the US looked at 218 studies into the health effects of social isolation and loneliness involving nearly four ...

A belt that helps people with Parkinson’s in balancing their movements. This is the latest innovation by researchers at the University of Houston. They have created a wearable belt lined with vibrating actuators that ...

Pizza for everyone. In Bagno a Ripoli, near Florence, the local administration and the Red Cross created a project that provides free pizza door-to-door for the elderly. The target are old people who social ...

Over65 hit by postoperative delirium risk Alzheimer’s three times more than other old patients. It has been affirmed by an American study published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia. Authors have involved a sample ...

French notaries are increasingly concerned about working with clients who have dementia or Alzheimer’s. They are worried that these individuals’ decision making capabilities might be compromised by their illness. At least this is the position ...

Physical activity does not protect against Alzheimer’s. Previous studies have attempted to prove the positive association between sports and Alzheimer’s risk. However, a recently published study by a French research institute, INSERM, challenges this long ...